103 Ideas for Children in Daily Summer Life

Rachel Schultz

This is for a paper you could print out and have posted for your children of ideas they can do in everyday summer down time. It is important to bless children by helping them have incredible summers during the special years of childhood. It’s fun and helpful to have a physical list posted to look through, for ideas.

I wanted to keep this list to things children can do meeting three requirements: around the house, generally on their own, and with things we already have.

1. Build a lego diorama
2. Draw a scene from the Bible
3. Make chocolate milk
4. Practice knots
5. Give someone a compliment about their character
6. Read poetry in the hammock
7. Do a chore in secret without being caught
8. Pitch the tent in the yard
9. Make an obstacle course out of string
10. Iron the cloth napkins
11. Magna-tiles on garage door
12. Organize and tidy a dresser drawer
13. Memorize scripture
14. Make a newspaper about the family’s week
15. Practice shadow puppets
16. Listen to a book on tape
17. Blow bubbles
18. Jump on the trampoline
19. Jump rope
20. Sidewalk chalk
21. Make cookies
22. Build a lego house
23. Build a lego dragon
24. Build a lego car
25. Draw a person
26. Draw a plant
27. Draw from your imagination
28. Make lemonade
29. Run laps
30. Read a book
31. Do origami
32. Coloring pages
33. Do 100 squats & jumping jacks
34. Build a marble maze
35. Build a marble run
36. Do a puzzle
37. Build a diorama
38. Draw outside
39. Play dough
40. Whittle
41. Pattern blocks
42. Play a board game
43. Take a nap
44. Have a snack
45. Play chess
46. Rubik’s cube
47. Make a gift for someone
48. Leave a note on someone’s pillow without being caught
49. Bake bread
50. Write in a journal
51. Play telephone
52. Read a book to a younger child
53. Make someone’s bed for them
54. Write a letter
55. Make a paper bag puppet
56. Run in the sprinkler
57. Cup & ball game
58. Bop-it game
59. Play solitaire
60. Bike ride
61. Call grandma
62. Dance party
63. Stilts
64. Hula hoop
65. Relay race timed trials
66. Ring darts
67. Pasta necklaces
68. Hot wheels car track
69. Perform a play
70. Practice an instrument
71. Imagination play
72. Airplane paper target
73. Take a bath
74. Play pictionary
75. Sensory bin
76. Kinetic sand
77. Practice juggling
78. Spirograph
79. Play charades
80. Pogo stick
81. Blanket fort
82. Karaoke
83. Play catch
84. Play with our animals
85. Yo-yo
86. Weed the garden
87. Binoculars
88. Practice dribbling basketball
89. Practice splits
90. Frisbee
91. Organize the pantry
92. Dress up
93. Army men or dolls
94. Study a map
95. Water table
96. Write a novel
97. Alphabetize children’s books
98. Skip-it
99. Practice carthweels
100. Wheelbarrow race
101. Create an obstacle course
102. Write riddles
103. Cup stacking

“Right now counts forever.” R.C. Sproul